Keops
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Hello,
A few pictures of my Atari ST collection. It's only a part of the entire collection, there is still a lot of games in big boxes to unpack and sort.
Speaking of which, if you have some to sell or trade, don't hesitate
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Hello,
I have a few hundred ST games but I am still seeking a lot of missing titles to complete the collection.
If you have some to give away or sell, don't hesitate
Keops
(attached picture showing a small part of the collection)
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ParanoidLittleMan: so much aggressivity... and when it comes to arrogance, you sure quickly took the lead on this thread
Soulbuster: any list of games is subjective anyway but parsing a few lists will eventually show a pattern of great games to try
Dungeon Master, Vroom, IK+ and Wings Of Death is a good starting point
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A few other ST games worth trying:
(I was about to type a list but then realized that Atarimania had a good one for games and utilities)http://www.atarimania.com/top-atari-game-atari-st-_G_S_V.html
Have fun
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A game programmed around 50hz and using the vertical blank for timing would run about 15% faster on 60hz but that's about it.
A few games, very few, wouldn't run at 60hz. Probably too much code and too little time between vertical blanks. But there was a little program called "50hz.tos" which switched the system into 50hz mode. Once this was run, many of these games would work. As long as you were using the Atari SC1224 monitor, anyway.
That's why I asked, it sounds really weird to me to have games run 20% faster (not to mention music) and I wondered if north american market had a way to avoid that back then.
50hz.tos is probably the program the retailer once told me about.
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if you were using an atari monitor sc1124 it handled both 50hz and 60hz just fine, (a little bit of flicker with 50hz)
What I mean is: were those games always switched back to 50Hz, even Epyx (North American) editions?
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By the way, how was the NTSC/PAL (60Hz vs 50Hz) issue handled with games in North America? Did you have to switch the games to 50 Hz to play them? (back then motion was frame based in games in general, not time based, and most games were calibrated for 50Hz, the main market, afair).
A US retailer told me a story about north american gamers having to boot the game with an app that switched to 50Hz before launching the games.
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Great collection. I spent countless hours playing SMS games when I was a kid, especially Alex Kidd
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Wow, nice
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Do you have the boxes and instructions for those games?
That would definitely increase the value of the lot.
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I am in Canada at the moment. I have a few duplicates but not Amberstar. Don't hesitate to PM me if you have some to give away/sell/trade, along with a list of the ones you're looking for, just in case I have some of those.
There are a lot of games I'm still looking for, too many to list here